HYPNOSIS BLOG & RESOURCE CENTER 

Hypnosis has been successfully used for many years to help with pain management because pain, as a signal in the nervous system, is remarkably malleable, meaning your experience of it can and does change depending on how you’re paying attention to things.

A great many self-help books and motivational speakers tell you that if you just "believe in yourself" and trust in your own abilities, you’ll be sure to succeed in life. What they often don’t tell you is how to actually go about doing this. If you’ve sometimes doubted your own abilities, if you get nervous or self-conscious at times, or you let opportunities in life pass you by because you don’t have enough faith in yourself to pursue them, how can you develop greater trust

Just because you feel an urge to be negative about yourself doesn’t mean you have to allow it to happen. When you tame your own thinking, and learn to talk to yourself in a calmer, fairer, more civilized way, you’re using the same principles you’ve already learned for how to act in public, and how to speak appropriately to other people, and applying them to your own mind. Therapeutic hypnosis can help you learn to bring civilization to your mind, so that you can treat yoursel

I’ve heard countless people tell me about how they spend all day criticizing themselves in the privacy of their own minds. Why do they do this? Sometimes it’s because people have impossibly high standards—they feel like they need to do everything absolutely perfectly, and if they make even the smallest mistake, they tell themselves that they’re a total failure, and they might feel an overwhelming sense of guilt that’s completely disproportionate to the little thing they did w

There is often an element of stealth and secrecy to the way that sabotage is conducted, so if someone sabotages a political campaign, the identity of the saboteur might go completely undetected. So, what do we mean when we talk about sabotaging ourselves? Does it really mean that there is some mysterious, negative, subconscious part of us that wants us to fail at what we do? Or is there a simpler, more straightforward psychological principle at work here?